Posted on 05/14/2012 12:11:34 PM PDT by Kevin C
Rep. Ron Paul of Texas said Monday he will not compete in primaries in any of the states that have not yet voted — essentially confirming Mitt Romney will win the Republican presidential nomination. Mr. Paul said he will continue to work for delegates in states that have already voted and where the process of delegate-selection is playing out. He said that’s a way to make his voice heard at the nominating convention in Tampa, Fla., in August. “Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted,” Mr. Paul said. “Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have.” He did encourage his supporters to still turn out and vote. His decision not to compete for new votes in other states leaves Mr. Romney as the only candidate still actively fighting for voters’ support.
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Yes, nutty was an accurate description of Ron Paul.
He's the only one actually out there taking delegates away from Romney.
Oh please. As of today, Paul has a whopping 104 delegates. That is still less than Gingrich has. Paul cultists are making jerks of themselves at some state conventions and swiping a few delegates here and there, but it isn't even remotely close to enough to make a difference. Romney has 973 delegates as of today and will easily win on the 1st ballot in Tampa.
He is, however, the only one who believes the traitor Bradley Manning is a hero and a patriot.
It’s a little early in the day to be drinking, isn’t it?
Damn right. We're supposed to vote for [insert "true conservative" name here] for President, and HOPE that when 0baMao wins re-election (in no small part because we allowed him to do so), (1) he can't get anything through Congress (which requires the Boehner-led, R-controlled House AND the squishy RINOs in the Senate WILL NOT compromise!? Brilliant!), (2) his SCOTUS appointments won't be any worse than Willard's, and (3) he won't slash and burn what's left of the country via Executive Orders.
Yeah, that sounds like a great plan to me! /s
Mostly conservative but with major flaws: Newt Gingrich, Rick Perry.
About as exciting as watching paint dry: Tim Pawlenty.
Anybody not named Romney?
Face it dude, we got stuck with a terrible candidate who won because he had lots of money, had the establishment backing him up, and played extremely dirty behind-the-scenes politics to get to where he is. That may make him a "fighter" in your eyes, but I don't really want that kind of "fighter" representing me. Hence, he doesn't, as I'll find an actual conservative, not-Romney candidate to vote for, even if it does mean I'm "throwing my vote away."
People made a big deal about 20% of Democrats voting "No preference" in the NC Dem primary last week. Don't forget that 35% of Republicans essentially voted the same thing, however, by voting for candidates who were either completely non-viable to start with (Paul) or who were already out (Santorum, Gingrich). Romney lost 35% of Republicans votes to people who aren't even in the race anymore, or who might as well not have been. Doesn't bode well for him, regardless of what Rasmussen is saying right now.
It's not how he is running that concerns me, its how he will govern that does.
Experience tells a different story.
Durn right!
C'mon folks, let's get out there and work hard so that our pro-abortion, pro-gay agenda, anti-gun, pro-progressive taxation, pro-government run health care, tax raising, fee increasing, bad judge picking, religious liberty infringing, big government loving candidate can beat their pro-abortion, pro-gay agenda, anti-gun, pro-progressive taxation, pro-government run health care, tax raising, fee increasing, bad judge picking, religious liberty infringing, big government loving candidate!!!!
Go Team R! RRRRRRRRRemember - if he's got the R after his name, you gotta vote foRRRRRRRR him!
Let us know how that works for you.
If you think Goode or Johnson are viable options, you are smoking more dope than an OWS encampment.
And a GOP cash payoff.
“ideological fudgings and missteps”. LOL!
Is that what we call it now?
The Template for Obama at his worst is what it is, but at least Romney was honest.
He is a *self proclaimed* Progressive, along with the Progressive Black Caucus, Hillary Clinton, Maxine Waters, Barbara Lee, etc. You do know that is but a step below being a full fledged communist don’t you, and some of these folks don’t mind being called exactly that.
Wake up.
"We couldn't get enough votes for our guy to win the primaries and, thus, the nomination. But we have enough votes to screw the other guy over and then the GOP-e will take notice!""But, even at the cost of continuing the rush to destruction of Obama?"
"Hey, we're taking a principled, moral approach to the situation!""So it's more principled and moral to continue the certainty of the past 4 years than to interrupt that with the possibility of being able to do something different?"
"We couldn't get enough votes for our guy to win the primaries and, thus, the nomination. But we have enough votes to screw the other guy over and then the GOP-e will take notice!"
The flaws of each of these candidates were explicated in detail here on FR over a period of months. Maybe you think that everyone who found these three to be unworthy of the office of President was wrong, but they were all found to be wanting by your fellow FReepers. Each one failed to make the sale based on their own shortcomings.
Experience tells us that Romney goes along to get along. Experience tells us nothing else about him.
So what you are saying is that you want Obama to win re-election?
If you think this reply makes any sense you are wrong.
You're just making stuff up because you want Obama to win, right?
Although, Johnson is polling in the double digits in a three-way with Willard and Zero.
History shows this means next to nothing come election time.
How sad a situation is it where your "best" hope is that Willard gets elected and we get a holding action for four years?
That is assuming the CHICOMS don't just buy our Country out from underneath us in the interim.
Why are you saying this to me? I'm voting for the GOP nominee.
Think of it as a four-year fumigation of the White House.
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